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| Assistant District Commissioner Arnoldi Graham DE COURCY-IRELAND | |
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Tanganyika Protectorate Date of birth: 18th July 1906 Date of death: 19th July 1931 Killed on active service aged 25 Unknown |
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| Arnoldi Graham De Courcy-Ireland was born at Somersham, Huntingdonshire on the 18th of July 1906 the second son of the Reverend Magens Arrindle De Courcy-Ireland and Elizabeth Mildred (nee Graham-Foster -Piggot) De Courcy-Ireland of the Vicarage, Somersham, later of Abington Pigotts in Cambridgeshire. He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Sandersons House from September 1919 to July 1925. He was appointed as a Librarian in 1924. He was a member of the 2nd Football XI from 1922 to 1924 and of the Football XI in 1925.He was a member of the Athletics Team in 1924 and won House Colours for Shooting and Cricket. He served as a Company Sergeant Major in the Officer Training Corps and achieved Certificate A. He was appointed as a House Captain in September 1923 and as Head of House in September 1924. He was appointed as a Prefect in September 1924. He matriculated for Clare College, Cambridge in October 1925 where he achieved a BA in June 1928. He remained for a further year at Cambridge for special studies before taking up an appointment as a Cadet with the East African Administrative Service. He left for East Africa from Southampton on board the passenger and cargo steam ship SS Mattana on the 6th of July 1929. He began work as a Cadet at Dar es Salaam on the 11th of August 1929 and within a year he had been appointed as District Commissioner to the Masai and later as Assistant District Commissioner to the Wafiome tribe at Babati Arusha in Tanganyika. On the 19th of July 1931, Arnoldi De Courcy-Ireland was killed while attempting to rid the area of a group of elephants which was raiding the crops of local farmers. The Lancing College Magazine wrote: - |
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